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1) Saving Red
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Publisher Annotation: Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in Santa Monica?s annual homeless count, just to get her school?s community service requirement out of the way. But when she ends up meeting Red, a spirited homeless girl only a few years older than she is, Molly makes it her mission to reunite her with her family in time for Christmas. But Red refuses to talk about her past. There...
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Publisher Annotation: Luke has been away for two endless years, but he?s finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can?t wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops. Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering...
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The Language of Fire is a lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This extraordinary verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation. Jehanne was an illiterate peasant, never quite at home among her siblings and peers. Until one day, she...
7) Witness
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A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Publisher Annotation: Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic—likely a hazard of growing up on film sets thanks to his father’s job. Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can’t believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too. But when Mack’s father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be. It’s awful...
10) The poet X
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Publisher Annotation: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers?especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who...
11) Ebb & flow
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A powerful story of betrayal, forgiveness and self-discovery. One summer, after a long plane ride and a rotten bad year I went to Grandma Jo's. Ebb & Flow is the captivating story of eleven-year-old Jett's summer back home on the coast after "a rotten bad year" in a new town. When his father went to jail, Jett and his mother moved away, and Jett quickly learned that fresh starts aren't all they're cracked up to be. He returns to spend the summer with...
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Eleanor Kane books volume 3
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A new girl at school throws nine-year-old Eleanor's relationship with her best friend Pearl into disarray.
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"Sentate, tenemos que hablar" es una comedia en cuatro actos que cuenta un día en la vida de Mariano; un hombre modelo jefe de familia, con una hermosa y devota esposa, una hija y un hijo sin vicios ni maldad. Su status económico es elevado, su carrera es brillante y, además, tiene un terrible secreto.
Pero ¿Qué pasa cuando ese secreto reencarna en cuerpo y alma frente tuyo y ya no podés hacer más que enfrentarte a él? En este día ocurren...
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Karla está apunto de graduarse de facultad, vive en un seno familiar unido con buenos valores. Su vida dio un giro inesperado al conocer a Damián, ña obsesión de el por Karla y su "trabajo" de dudosa procedencia la hacen huir del país. Leonardo aparece en su vida cuando mas necesitaba de un amigo, ¡el fue su salvador!, pero en "yo soy tu Destino" no todo es lo que parece, acompaña a Karla en esta historia que sin duda te cautivará desde el...
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Publisher Annotation: After her eighteenth birthday, Hilde, a former orphan in 1930s Berlin, goes out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers—and Rosa, the club’s waitress and performer. As the café and all who work there embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings...
17) Dear Mothman
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After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
18) Walking on glass
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A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.
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"Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society-picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups-The Call-Out also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service...
20) One
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Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
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